The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-30

morning, and while laundering along at
the rate of thirteen miles an hour, just
after it had passed Thomas Parker's fields
and was on a down Craze run, a three-year-
old steer jumped OH the track in front of
the engine, and was knocked up in the air
nearly TO the height of the smokestack. In
| falling his head went between the engine
and the beam TO which the pilot is fastened,
! and there he lodged. Engineer Meidrim when
his engine struck the steer, shut off steam and
prepared to jump, thinking the engine
! would be thrown from the track; but, feel
ing no jar from passing over the animal, he
put on steam and proceeded on his way,
| running up TO Rocky Ford, three miles dis
| tant, carrying the steer on the pilot or cow
| catcher When the train was stopped the
i hands extricate@ the steer and found that
his shoulder had been crushed and one horn
| broken off. He was then killed and sold on
| account Of the company, and enough was
realized TO pay the damage to the owner.
The residence of a white man in the
Seventeenth district of Sumter county is
becoming untenable on account of being
stoned, night and day, since Monday, Sept.
49, a great many of the neighbors have
been drawn to the scene by the occurrence,
and to try to solve the mystery. They
have nearly all seen the stones hurting
through the air, and hit the house with
loud crash, but have not been able to dis
| cover the propelling force. If any of the
tenants go into the field to work the in
visible agency follows them, and
the stones begin to fall thickly around
and they are compelled to run away from
their work. The gentlemans wife is nearly
frightened out of her wits, while a daughter
who had been under medical treatment for
a nervous disease, who was fast recovering,
is now worse off than ever, from the effects
of fright, from the stoning As yet no clew
to the mysterious cause has been obtained,
but some of the neighbors, who have been
observing and trying to investigate the
occurrence, ascribe it to some foe of tho
gentleman, who is trying TO run him away
in order to obtain the place for another
year.
One day last week a Mr.. English, who
lives a mile or two from Americas, was
driving loaded wagon down the long steep
hill just beyond the Muckalee bridges, when
he heard big numbering noise behind him.
On looking back he was terrified to see a
four mule team running away and driver
less, with a wagon loaded with four bales of
cotton. The negro had dismounted to lock
wheel, when the mules started to run
down the steep hill. One of the wheel
mules fell, doubling its neck back under
him, which probably saved Mr.. English.
He whipped up his team and started
at a fearful rate for the bottom, as it was
impossible to turn aside on account of the
deep gully on each side of the road. As the
rear wagon gained on him he turned his
whip on the lead mules. and by popping it
in their faces caused them to run off TO the
side, throwing a wheel into the gully and
stopping the wagon The mule that was
dragged down the hill was quickly liberated
and found not to be hurt, but badly skinned.
Mr.. English was terribly frightened, and
says that he'll always wait for heavy wagons
to precede him hereafter in descending that
place
An old widower, in Americas, has fine
patch of turnips, which very few can boast
of here abouts On account of the drought,
and he also has a neighbor, who is, we be-
heve a widow. She owns fine lot of chick
ems, and they fly over the fence and depre-
date on the widower's turnip greens. He
expostulated with the lady and begged her
to chop her chickens wings. This she posi-
lively refused to do, and the widower set a
trap in his turnips, caught several chickens,
clipped their wings and threw them over
the fence The woman didn't like
this operation and she determined
to break up the trap. One
morning last week, she got up while it was
dark, scaled the fence and sought for the
trap. She found it, and the neighbor soon
found her. She was caught in a steel trap,
and the way she sent up a most unmusical
yell would have caused a Comanche chief to
hide his head in shame. 1t aroused that
section, and the widower ran out to see
what was the matter He quickly relieved
her, and the steel trap is gone. but the
chickens don't eat his turnip greens any
more. They don't speak either, and she
won't look over that way.
A very serious difficulty occurred Just
across the Gwinnett county line in Hall
county recently. The particulars are
about as follows: 1t seems that q
misunderstanding arose between w. +.
Wilder and Charles Maddox, of Gwinnett
county, about some puppies, which termi-
mated in Maddox drawing an ak upon
Wilder, for which warrant was taken out
for his arrest. Before the trial the parties
agreed to settle their differences,
and the warrant was dismissed. Maddox's
wife then swore out two warrants, one
against Wilder, and the other against his
sister. In retaliation Wilder took out
warrant for Maddox and placed it in the
hands of Bailif Patrick. To avoid arrest
Maddox stepped off into Hall county, where
he was pursued by the bailiff and his posse
They found him at Hiram Clark's but he
refused to submit to arrest, and made battle
with an axe, infiicting serious wound
across the arm of j. A. Durham,
one of the arresting party cutting it to the
bone, a length of five inches, between the
elbow and shoulder. Durham then shot
Maddox in the hip, the ball lodging near the
region OF UDe kidneys. Inc wound Is re-
garded as dangerous one, and Maddox is
unable to be moved. His condition is so
critical that there are great fears that it
will prove fatal
The woman who carried her newborn
babe out into grove ON Fortune street. in
| the extreme eastern portion of Atlanta,
Monday last, and left it dead, has been
located by Capt. Mercer and Detective
Buchanan, but has not been arrested yet
She is in an extremely critical condition
After locating the woman, the detective as
certained that she was extremely i'll, and
securing the name of the physician who was
waiting upon her, called to see him. The
| physicians statement was of such charac-
ter as to strengthen the detectives suspicion.
He had been called to see the woman after
She became a mother, but found no child
and from the mother heard plausible story.
The detective then found the mother of the
woman, who informed him that she had
talked with ner daughter, and that the
daughter had admitted giving birth to the
child, but said that it was premature.
| The husband of the woman was seen by
! the detective, and asserted that he knew
nothing OF the affair. Before completing
his work Detective Buchanan became salts
fled that the woman, after giving birth 10
the child, walked out to the grove, and
dropping il, went back home. No arrest
has been made because the woman's condi-
| ton prevents it, She NAV never recover